Differences between Emacs and Vim@JMCF125: I don't use either one full-time anymore, but I prefer Vim out of the two, and used it full-time for about a year and a half. I use IntelliJ IDEA now, but I still fire up Vim for quick edits.

How to send a GET request from PHP?@Deb: Really? Do you have a benchmark you could link to? I won't believe that until I see some numbers, because I don't see how file_get_contents could be significantly slower, especially since most of the time would be spent waiting for the response.